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By Lisa Friedman The New York Times Of all of the efforts by the Biden administration to protect environmentally fragile lands, few have generated as much vitriol as a proposal that would block oil and gas drilling on 1.6 million acres of high desert sagebrush steppe in Wyoming. One lawmaker in t...
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         By Coral Davenport The New York Times A directive issued Thursday by the Biden administration would, for the first time, have federal agencies consider the economic damage caused by climate change when deciding what kinds of vehicles, equipment and goods to buy. ...
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    By Marcy Gordon The Associated Press WASHINGTON » Companies would be required to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions they produce and how climate risk affects their business under new rules proposed Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of a drive across the go...
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Posted by on in General Environment
  President Joe Biden has chosen Boulder’s KC Becker, the recent speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, for a top job in the Environmental Protection Agency. In a news release Thursday, the White House announced Biden intends to appoint Becker to be administrator of the EPA’s Regio...
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  By Alan Fram and Zeke Miller The Associated Press WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden on Saturday hailed Congress’ passage of his $1 trillion infrastructure package as a “monumental step forward for the nation” after fractious fellow Democrats resolved a months-long standoff in their ranks to...
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    By Brad Plumer and Winston Choi-Schagrin © The New York Times Co. WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden has framed this moment as the country’s best chance to save the planet. “The nation and the world are in peril,” he said weeks ago in the New York City borough of Queens, where 11 pe...
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  By Ellen Knickmeyer and Matthew Daly The Associated Press WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden tried on Friday to hammer out the world’s next steps against rapidly worsening climate change with a small group of other global leaders and announced a new U.S.-European pledge to cut climate-wrecki...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
By Justin Wingerter The Denver Post America cannot wait any longer to make large investments in clean energy and combat climate change, President Joe Biden said Tuesday in Jefferson County. “Climate change is here today, not next year or 10 years from now. We have to make changes to slow climate ...
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U.N.: Weather disasters soar in numbers, cost, but deaths fall   By Seth Borenstein and Jamey Keaten The Associated Press GENEVA » Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more damage than in the 1970s, the United Nations weather agency ...
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By Coral Davenport, Lisa Friedman and Christopher Flavelle © The New York Times Co. WASHINGTON » Juliette Hart quit her job last summer as an oceanographer for the U.S. Geological Survey, where she used climate models to help coastal communities plan for rising seas. She said she was demoralized af...
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Posted by on in Fossil Fuels
The Biden administration has defended a contentious pipeline project that would carry hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil through Minnesota’s delicate watersheds, urging in a court brief that a challenge brought by local tribes and environmental groups be thrown out. The closely watched filing ...
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 By Lisa Friedman © The New York Times Co. WASHINGTON » When John Kerry served as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state, he helped steer the negotiation of the Paris Agreement, locking down commitments from nearly 200 nations — including his own — to begin to reverse the dange...
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